Birder-day Supplement: The Birds of Yappy Hour

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Adam Lang

Still haven’t finalized my solution to this blog mess. As soon as I do, I have all the photos edited for my yappy hour roundup. But in the meantime, here are some other non-dog-related pictures I took down at the Half Moon Bay Ritz.

Note! The photography contest is now officially closed to entries! (Although if you’re really nice to me I might let you sneak in something under the wire. But hurry, dammit!) Over the next two weeks or so I’ll be setting up a voting system where people can vote on the top few pictures in each category. Keep an eye out, and please do vote when you see them.

Brown Pelican

I thought this one was a brown pelican, although I note that most of the pictures of brown pelicans on Google seem to have white heads…

Crow

This bears a striking resemblance to a piece of jewelry I made in a metalworking class about fifteen years ago. Crow, I think.

American Goldfinch

American goldfinch. Such gorgeous little birds.

Brown Pelicans

Finally, that really is three brown pelicans, not three exposures of the same one. And some cormorants and gulls in the background.

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Dog of the Day: Still the Boston Terrier

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Adam Lang

Having some problems getting switched over to the new hosting plan. Can’t post large amounts of new stuff until I get switched over. As it is, I’m deleting old stuff that I probably shouldn’t be. Ugh.

So… dognose.

Boston Terrier Nose

As always, my favorite pose.

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Dog of the Day: A Little More Boston Terrier

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Adam Lang

Writing this live from the aftermath of the Pampered Pooch Party, at the Half Moon Bay Ritz Carlton.

It’s been a really long time since I stayed at a Ritz Carlton (like… I think I was eight? Ten?) And although I’ve been in a few other luxury hotels since then, I had mostly forgotten what it was like. I was going to say ‘I could really get used to this’ but I’m not actually sure I could: it’s that disconcerting. But it’s certainly nice once in a while.

I’ll try to get some pictures up tomorrow. In the mean time, two more of our friend here.

Boston Terrier

Yeah, you get that goofy ‘high-and-mighty’ expression, but I know you just want to lick my toes.

Boston Terrier

When he yawns his ears stand even more to attention than usual.

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Dog of the Day: More Boston Terrier

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Adam Lang

Still deciding what to do. The Macintosh resale market is really weird.

In the mean time, here’s that Boston terrier again. Incidentally, only three more days until the photography contest ends! Hurry up and submit!

Boston Terrier

If you see a white floating something-or-other above the dog’s head, that’s a dog-nose-print that was on my lens for around three days. Hazard of the profession.

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Dog of the Day: Boston Terrier

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Adam Lang

Still contemplating options on the hosting front. Thinking of setting up a Mac mini colocation: a little pricey up front, but where else can you get your own quad-core 16-gig-RAM SSD-with-hard-drive-backup machine for $30 a month?

Then I have to figure out what the heck I would use all that power for, of course.

In the mean time, here’s another somewhat minimal post of a very cute Boston terrier.

Boston Terrier

More of this guy tomorrow. He’s got a great variety of expressions.

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Dog of the Day: More Tidus

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Adam Lang

Well, I’ve managed to squirm down below the 5 gig mark, and am still working on long-term plans; I was sort of hoping not to start spending significant amounts of money on this blog, unless it started making me a little money. But, on the other hand… it’s fun. I briefly considered adding advertising, but… well… ugh. I have almost never seen blog ads that I didn’t think were ugly and intrusive at least some of the time.

Well, we’ll see what happens. In the mean time, posts will be a bit short, so I can maximize my available space. I promise I’ll have all this sorted by the beginning of the next phase of the photography contest, where blog visitors will be able to vote on the finalists of each category, which will probably be around the second week in July. (There’s still time to submit!)

Anyway, here’s a picture I quite like of Autumn and Tidus the corgi.

Autumn Rhodes of the San Francisco Pup Scouts Dog Walkers and Tidus the Pembroke Welsh Corgi

Autumn loves her job. Can’t you just tell?

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DoggiEvents: Upcoming

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Adam Lang

So, still working on clearing out some space for pictures in the short term, and looking for other arrangements in the longer term.

In the mean time, here are a few upcoming dog-related events and notes in the Bay Area:

  • The Ritz in Half Moon Bay recently revised its policies to make dogs feel more welcome. They invited a bunch of local pet bloggers, including yours truly, to a little celebration of the change, so expect some photos from the Ritz in a couple weeks.
  • The Dogs of SF has hit a major milestone: our first press pass! Autumn covered the ‘World’s Ugliest Dog’ competition. Wait until you see the pictures! (Not sure when these will get posted, since Autumn will be out of town on music-related business for almost a month starting next week.)
  • San Francisco Bark For Life is July 21, raising money for cancer research. Sounds like a good time for a good cause. Check it out! Be a sponsor!
  • Also on July 21 (who plans these things, anyway?) is ‘Doggie Style Scavenger Hunt (Bring Your Dog)‘ Quote: In a city where dogs outnumber children it’s a crime there has never been a scavenger hunt directly for dog lovers. Sounds like fun!
  • Bay to Barkers is coming up quickly: July 29th! I will be there: will you?

Got any more dog-related events to share? Leave a comment and I’ll add them!

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Site News: Uh… Whoops

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Adam Lang

So, I seem to have gone over-quota on my hosting account last month. To the tune of rather a significant sum of money.

To be honest, I never expected to stick with this long enough to amass 5 gigs of pictures on my hard drive, let alone actually post a full 5 gigs. And lo and behold, I have about 180 gigs of dog pictures on my hard drive, and 5 gigs of pictures on my hosting account. (And a gig of other files.)

So. I do not want to repeat that bill, so I have trimmed down a bunch of stuff and will be trimming more over the next day or two, and will resume posting once I’ve got it down below my quota again. And at that point I’ll also be figuring out how to solve the problem over the long term.

So. Brief hiatus! Sorry.

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Dog of the Day: French Bulldog

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Adam Lang

I think this gal was unable to fit her tongue entirely into her mouth.

French Bulldog

She also made constant grunting noises. I can’t tell whether to find that cute or sad.

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Dog of the Day: Ani the 16-Year-Old Indian Spitz

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Adam Lang

I won’t say that Ani (pronounced like Annie) is the oldest dog I’ve ever featured on here, but she’s pretty close. And she’s still doing all right… still got her eyesight, and teeth, and such. She’s an Indian Spitz, which I’d never even heard of until I took these pictures.

Still plenty of time to get those photography contest entries in by the 30th of June.

16-Year-Old Indian Spitz

The ears are really something. Trust me: their full grandeur has not yet been revealed.

16-Year-Old Indian Spitz

I swear Ani studied photography and composition. I didn’t crop this picture at all, and she was the one who framed herself. Perfectly, I might add. (Also: see what I mean about the ears?)

16-Year-Old Indian Spitz

More ridiculous earage.

16-Year-Old Indian Spitz

Another good pose: ‘noble dog before loving master.’ I wish I’d stepped back a bit and gotten them both in the frame.

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